PEALE.] 



UPPER GEYSER BASIN BEE HIVE GEYSER. 



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Table showing comparison of ohservations on the Bee Hive Geyser.* 



Year. 



Observer. 



c 

 •Id 



n 



O O 

 1 



Interval. 



Duration. 



el 



1870 



1870 



1871t 











219* 











219* 













1872 



1873 



Peale • 



13 



1 



21to25honr3 







P,. .T. Stanlfiv 







1874t 









1875 Grinnell and Dana . . 



1876t 



3 



25to261ionr3 



4 or 5 minutes 



200* 



1877' 



Sherman and Poe. . . 

 Peale 



2 

 §8 









1878 



7 to 16 hours 



3 to 5 minutes 



205* 



1879 





230 



1881 





3 



16 to 30 hours 





200 











* These are measured. 



t Not seen in action. 



I These are not known to be consecutive. 



§ Only five of these are consecutive. 



1879. — ^Dr. S. Weir Mitchell saw two eruptions of the Bee Hive, but 

 gives no interval nor duration. He thought it the "most perfect water- 

 jet that could be imagined." 



Trinity Oeysers. — This name Professor Comstock has given to three 

 bowls on a mound near the north end of the group, t To one of the 

 three we have given the name Mobe Geyser, which is the only one seen 

 in action by us. As there are four springs altogether, I have given the 

 name Trinity to the three that are nearest together, and the name Mobe 

 Geyser to the largest cone. In 1871 they were called the chimneys by 

 Colonel Barlow;! but as Professor Comstock was the first one to record 

 any eruption, I have given the preference to his name. The mound on 

 which they are situated is the one on which in 1872 I found mice that had 

 been scalded to death from which fact I judged the cones to be gey- 

 sers (p. 149 of my report for 1872). 



The mound is rather triangular in shape, measuring 42, 69, and 73 feet 

 on the sides, and the summit is 43 feet above the level of the river. Its 

 steepest side has an abrupt elevation of 20 feet. The three openings 

 are on the west side on the broadest portion, while the Niobe Geyser is to 

 the eastward somewhat isolated. In the illustration, Fig. 2, Plate XXIII, 

 two of the cones of the Trinity are seen in the foreground, and theNiobe 

 Geyser in the background. 



* The following table is given in Professor Norris's report for 1881, page 57: 



JBee Hive. 



Date. 



Time of eruption. 









o 



^i 







i-i 



fcu 





<u 



P 



w 



Min- 



Feet. 



5 



175 



5 



200 



5 



180 



Remarks. 



Oct. 4 



Oct. 5 



Oct. 



9. 45 p. m 



2.15p.m 



8.40 p.m 



Column of water always vortical, and 

 of groat sjTiimetry and beauty 



tRoconnaissancoof Northwestern Wyoming, by Capt. W. A. Jones, in 1873, p. 254. 

 t Reconnaissance of the Yellowstone River, 1871, p. 29. 



